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[News] [SOT] Intellectual Monopolies for Clothing: More Legalised Bribery (Lobbying)?

  • Subject: [News] [SOT] Intellectual Monopolies for Clothing: More Legalised Bribery (Lobbying)?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:57:55 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Fashion Designers Turning To Patents To Protect Their Designs (And Kill The
Industry)

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| After all, here was a highly competitive, extremely profitable, exceptionally 
| innovative creative industry -- and it was doing all that without copyright 
| protection. It seemed to show quite the opposite of what many in the 
| entertainment industry predicted would happen without copyrights. 
| Unfortunately, though, the lessons seemed to go in the other direction. The 
| fashion industry got jealous of the entertainment industry's ability to crack 
| down on innovation with copyrights and pushed Congress to introduce new 
| legislation that would add a copyright for fashion design. Recently such laws 
| have been getting a big push from politicians who are pandering to the 
| fashion industry. Of course, studies have shown that the very reason the 
| industry has thrived was because the lack of IP protection. In fact, one bit 
| of research showed that adding IP protections to fashion could kill the 
| industry.             
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080327/002456664.shtml


Related:

Defendant: RIAA abusing courts to shore up "failing business model"

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| After the lawsuit was filed, Njuguna said she boxed up the PC reportedly used 
| for infringement and purchased a new one. She then filed a series of 
| counterclaims to the RIAA's lawsuit in an attempt to have the lawsuit 
| dismissed and her name cleared. One of those accuses the record labels of 
| failing to negotiate in good faith.    
|
| [...]
|
| Njugana also accuses the RIAA of engaging in deceptive and unfair trade 
| practices, arguing that the record labels have demonstrated repeated behavior 
| that has an "adverse effect on the public interest." She also cites former 
| RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen's lawsuit (which seeks class-action status) as 
| evidence that, unless the courts step in at some point, the RIAA will 
| continue its campaign.     
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070913-defendant-riaa-abusing-courts-to-shore-up-failing-business-model.html


The RIAA will come to regret its court win

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| And, he told his blog readers: "If [the industry tries to] keep up the 
| strategy of 'you need us badly and therefore we make the rules' you will lose 
| the artists, their managers... and the audience. Another 12 months for this 
| Radiohead experiment to become the default approach. Get engaged or get 
| outmoded. And do it soon."    
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/08/0810_riaa_comment/


Mom Sues Universal Music for DMCA Abuse

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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against Universal 
| Music Publishing Group (UMPG), asking a federal court to protect the fair use 
| and free speech rights of a mother who posted a short video of her toddler 
| son dancing to a Prince song on the Internet.   
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10869/mom-sues-universal-music-dmca-abuse


Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD

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| The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free
| CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn
| widespread criticism from music retailers.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2114557,00.html

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